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E3 2006: The final word (E3 2006)

18/05/2006

Wednesday 17 May 2006 So, that was E3 2006. The most manic week of the gaming calendar has hurtled by once again in a tornado of news and a frenzy of game playing. Now, as relative calm returns and the chaos slowly seeps away, we look back on the big games, the big announcements, the highlights and the disappointments. Much of the week's hottest news happened before the doors had opened on E3, with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all making some big announcements at their pre-show ...

E3 has opened! And we're inside (E3 2006)

10/05/2006

Wednesday 10 May 2006 After all the talk, after all the pre-show conferences, after all the trailers and all the hype, E3 is finally open. And we're here! Yes, the vast LA Conference Centre has finally opened its doors and we are on the floor of the show itself, ready to bring you all of the breaking news, ready with informative and informed hands-on reports and ready with plenty of footage, right from the heart of ...

E3 show floor sneak preview (E3 2006)

10/05/2006

Wednesday 10 May 2006 With just hours to go until this year's E3 games show officially opens for business in Los Angeles, GamesRadar has managed to obtain an exclusive sneak preview of the show floor. As you can see from these photos, many of the stands are still under construction - including those for PlayStation 3 and Wii, both of which will be playable on the show floor. The Sony and Nintendo areas sit side-by-side in the LA Convention Centre's massive West Hall and are the focal points of ...

EA Playground: Wii gameplay video (EA Playground)

4/09/2007

Sept 4, 2007 The 2 November will see the release of EA Playground for both Wii and DS, allowing gamers to enjoy their favourite playground activities even if its the school holidays. Featuring a host of, no doubt, familiar playground activities including Dodgeball, Tetherball and, our favourite, Paper racers Playground looks like it has the potential to over-take Wii Sports as the party game of choice. Playing with a group of friends will obviously be the best way to experience this ...

EA Playground (EA Playground)

20/06/2007

The actual concept of an EA playground is one of the most wonderfully absurd things weve heard of in a while: a kind of compendium of EA games collected together in the style of a theme park. How excited you get by this prospect depends entirely on your age, because this one is aimed squarely at sticky-fingered youths. But theres no doubting it has a certain pizzazz. The minigame that were most looking forward to is Tetherball - the game that everyone loves until the ball swings right into ...

EA Playground development confirmed (EA Playground)

18/06/2007

An all-new IP for DS and Wii that captures the nostalgia of your neighbourhood playground.

EA Playground was first revealed early last month, but today EA has official confirmed the game's development for Wii and Nintendo DS.

In development at EA Canada, Playground features game that are easy to pick-up-and-play by fully capitalising on the unique control mechanics of both the Wii and DS. Players will find themselves swinging the Wii-mote to excel in tetherball, or blowing into the DS microphone to fire spitballs or battle friends and family in dodgeball.

EA Sports Active Announcement? (EA Sports Active)

7/10/2009

Feed Your Console Says:

Just this afternoon the community manager for the EA Sports Active brand "Active Girl" posted a Twitter announcement at 2:22EST that there would be a big announcement coming today sometime.

"Big EA SPORTS Active announcement coming up later today! Can't wait to tell you what's coming up!!"

EA Sports Active player base split evenly between men and women (EA Sports Active)

11/08/2009

As you likely noticed if you've turned on a TV in the past few months, EA Sports Active is being marketed pretty heavily towards the female demographic. So you can imagine the company's surprise when, as they told Joystiq earlier today, customer satisfaction surveys from its research group indicated that the Active audience was split evenly between men and women.

"Although we focused our marketing campaign on women, EA Sports Active was designed to accommodate everyone and our consumer base reflects that," Monique Gomel, marketing director for the game, told Joystiq.

EA Expanding EA Sports Active, Confirms Madden Arcade (EA Sports Active)

5/08/2009

EA Sports said Tuesday that EA Sports Active sold 1.8 million units during its June quarter, making the game the publisher's "best-selling Wii title ever."

The company intends to maintain the high sales momentum through unconventional marketing and distribution that saw the game advertised on QVC and sold at Dick's Sporting Goods, for example. The success has also prompted EA to release an expansion for the game later this year.

"Given the success of EA Sports Active, we've decided to launch an expansion pack this holiday. We are using development using from our tennis team on our EA Sports Active franchise," said Peter Moore, president of the publisher's EA Sports label.

EA Sports Active Wii expansion delays 360 and PS3 Grand Slam Tennis (EA Sports Active)

5/08/2009

VG247: Peter Moore confirmed an EA Sports Active expansion in EA's Q1 investor call tonight.

The add-on will release this holiday.

EA Q1 financials: EA Sports Active sells 1.8 million copies (EA Sports Active)

4/08/2009

VG247: During EA's Q1 conference call to investors it was revealed that EA Sports Active sold 1.8 million copies on Wii.

Peter Moore issues a challenge to President Obama (EA Sports Active)

22/06/2009

Earlier this week, President Obama delivered a speech to the American Medical Association. His speech mainly focused on health care, but there was a short remark about video games. The President, while speaking about ways to avoid illness and disease said that kids should "step away from the video games and spend more time playing outside." So how does Peter Moore fit into all of this? Mr. Moore, in a recent blog update, poked a bit of fun at President Obama and issued a challenged of sorts regarding an EA product.

EA want to bring EA Sports Active also to the PS3 and 360 (EA Sports Active)

7/06/2009

Peter Moore said in an interview with Joystiq that they want to bring the EA Sports Active franchise to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with use of the Motion Sensing technique that they release in the future. And according to Sony, we already be using this new technique on the PlayStation 3 at the beginning of 2010.

Perhaps this is not the only game that EA Sports want to bring to the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. It is possible that there will be more similar games coming, perhaps including Grand Slam Tennis. With the advent of the new Motion Sensing technology from Sony is a world open to many casual gamers who are looking for games to improve their health. How you can improve your health, is shown in the trailer.

EA Press Conference Roundup (EA Sports Active)

2/06/2009

GamesAreEvil presents a full roundup of the games demoed and discussed in yesterdays Press Conference from EA. After an unexpected start, we are greeted with some meaty details of some of the years most anticipated games.

B.C. residents set world record for video game exercise (EA Sports Active)

24/05/2009

Peter Wright came prepared: He had the sunglasses, the head band, the water bottle and yes, he even practised a bit.

Wright was among the 605 staff members at the video game giant's Burnaby headquarters who emerged from their cubicles on Friday to break an obscure world record: largest simultaneous video game exercise routine.

The huge crowd converged at EA's soccer field at noon to play EA Sports Active, the company's latest virtual fitness game.

New video game releases for week of 5/17/09 (EA Sports Active)

16/05/2009

This week's new videogame releases (5/17/09, US):
(subject to change)

Xbox 360
Bionic Commando
Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock
Terminator Salvation
UFC 2009 Undisputed

PLAYSTATION 3
Bionic Commando
Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock
Terminator Salvation
UFC 2009 Undisputed

Wii
Boom Blox Bash Party
EA Sports Active
EA Sports Active Multiplayer Pack
Punch-Out!!
Punch-Out!! Amazon.com Exclusive Heavyweight Contender Kit
Punch-Out!! Amazon.com Exclusive Little Mac Boxing Glove
Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock
Secret Files: Tunguska
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Wheelie Breakers

DS & DSi
Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles
I Love Beauty: Hollywood Makeover
Jagged Alliance
Math Blaster in the Prime Adventure
Puchi Puchi Virus
Secret Files: Tunguska
Steal Princess
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Stardust Accelerator World Championship Tournament 2009

PSP
no new releases

Target offering video game reservation cards for $1, with $5 GiftCard on purchase (EA Sports Active)

16/04/2009

Target is getting more aggressive on it's video game pre-orders and offering a great deal on its in-store video game reservations. Today Target announced that it would start a new video game reservation program, to begin this weekend, Sunday, April 19th. Upcoming video game releases can be reserved when you purchase a $1 Target Reservation Card, which features a design based on the game. Although it will cost you $1 to purchase the reservation card, upon returning to purchase the game you will get a $5 Target GiftCard. It's good towards a future purchase. So it comes out to a $4 savings.

Details from Target:
"Beginning April 19, Target guests can purchase a collectible reservation card, only in stores, for $1. When they bring the reservation card back within seven days of release to purchase their game, they will receive a $5 Target GiftCard to put toward a future purchase."

'Wii Fit girl' resurfaces as EA Sports Active spokesmodel (EA Sports Active)

18/03/2009

Joystiq writes:

"In these two videos, EA's Jen Riley walks us (and a live audience) through EA Sports Active, the Wii exercise program that includes the crazy-looking resistance band gear. Helping her out is a familiar face, Lauren Bernat, better known to perverted Nintendo fans as "the Wii Fit girl." Yes, she has a face. Bernat seems to have made the best out of what could have been the most horrifyingly embarrassing situation ever, so good for her. She is also sensibly dressed for this EA Sports Active demo. Good for her."

Ecco, Golden Axe hit Virtual Console (Ecco the Dolphin - Virtual Console)

29/11/2006

Seems we were a little premature in declaring Nintendo's latest Virtual Console release as a "slow-play" of their classic library. Two new Genesis games -- Ecco the Dolphin and Golden Axe -- are now available for download at 800 Wii points each.

Eduardo the Samurai Toaster dated, new video, screens (Eduardo the Samurai Toaster - Wii Software)

10/06/2009

TVGB: "Developer Semnat Studios has announced the release date for their samurai toaster whackfest, Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, today - June 15th. The game is a WiiWare exclusive and is priced at 800 Wii Points; "That's like the price of lunch," the press release argues."